Monsters, Claiming and Enmity

Final Fantasy XI has released some new information concerning monsters, claiming monsters, and enmity. This article expands on information from a news release back on April 17th:

In the version update news released on April 17, there was a brief explanation of the changes made to claiming monsters. We would now like to expand upon that explanation to give players a concrete idea of how the process of claiming monsters has been altered.

To state things clearly, only the conditions for “claiming” a monster have been changed--the process through which a monster chooses a target based on enmity remains the same.